anxiety
121substance-induced anxiety disorder — [DSM IV] an anxiety disorder characterized by prominent anxiety, panic attacks, obsessions, or compulsions and directly due to the physiological effects of a psychogenic substance, including drugs of abuse, medications, and toxins. Individual… …
122free-floating anxiety — an all pervasive unfocused fear that is not produced by any appropriate cause or attached to any particular idea. Such anxiety is a feature of the generalized anxiety disorder …
123Range Anxiety — The fear of being stranded in an electric car because of insufficient battery performance – said to be a barrier to sales of electric vehicles. Launching the Cadillac Converj concept car, General Motors’ Bob Lutz addressed the consumer’s fear of… …
124castration anxiety — noun (psychoanalysis) anxiety resulting from real or imagined threats to your sexual functions; originally applied only to men but can in principle apply to women • Topics: ↑psychoanalysis, ↑analysis, ↑depth psychology • Hypernyms: ↑anxiety,… …
125separation anxiety — noun Date: 1943 a form of anxiety experienced by a young child and caused by separation from a significant nurturant figure and typically a parent or from familiar surroundings …
126Cartesian anxiety — refers to the notion that, ever since René Descartes promulgated his highly influential form of body mind dualism, Western civilization has suffered from a longing for ontological certainty, or feeling that scientific methods, and especially the… …
127Somatic anxiety — is primarily a tension phenomenon, with restlessness, agitation, impatience, hyperreactivity and irritability. It is largely but not entirely observable. Tension is associated with high epinephrine or norepinephrine activity and activation of the …
128200 days of anxiety — (מאתיים ימי חרדה) is a period in the history of the Yishuv, from spring 1942 to 3 November, 1942, in which the Afrika Korps were heading east toward the Suez Canal and Israel …
